Re: Dual Boot Setp

From: Gerry Tool <gerry tool com>

To: psyche-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Dual Boot Setp

Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:53:12 -0600

Kris Carter wrote:

Hello,
I have two seperate hard drives; the boot drive is 3 GB and has Win2k
SP3 installed. I am new to Linux and have Red Hat 8.0. I have a second
(slave) drive that is roughly 40GB in size. I have just installed a new
Intel P3 Celeron board with 1.4 Ghz Processor with 256 MB RAM
First Id like to create a dual boot setup and am not quite sure how to
set that up with Linux.
Second.. I am creating a RAWRITE boot disk... and if this were Windows I
could boot with my disk, and install Windows from the I386 folder into
whatever drive I wanted. Is it that simple with Linux?

If possible, just boot from the RH8.0 CD-1. If not, boot from the floppy with
the CD in the drive.

Follow instructions, and when it gets to choosing the type of install, select
custom or expert - can't remember the terminology. Select the free space on
your new harddrive for partitioning. You should need no more than 10GB for
everything you want to install. You can use several partitions if you wish to
separate /home where your user files will reside from / where other parts of
the system heirarchy will reside. You should also define a swap partition of
about 2x the real ram size you have in the machine, 500 MB in your case.

When it comes time to select a boot loader, use the default GRUB and let it
install in your system Master Boot Record (MBR.) It will set up a dual boot
system for your new RedHat system and Windows 2000. If you need to revert to
just Windows 2000 at some time, just have a boot floppy around with Windows
fdisk on it so you can boot to it and run fdisk /mbr to restore your windows
only boot.

There are many variations of what you can do, so just follow your nose. It is
no big deal to start over again, so don't worry about getting it all perfect
the first time.